Peering through the fence at Morehouse College's football team as the players slammed into each other on the dusty practice field next to the gym, I turned to a professor standing next to me and sniffed - with the know-it-all arrogance that only a 21-ye...

      Sorry, Michael. You are no longer the worst "Bolton" in the world.

      No, music lovers have not pardoned the croakin' crooner for desecrating When A Man Loves A Woman in 1991. He still deserves the opprobrium of the masses and...

      Knock knock.

      Who's there?

      Ain'tcha.

      Ain'tcha who?

      Ain'tcha mama on the pancake box?

     When you heard that joke in Rockingham as kids in the 1960s, you either laughed or punched somebody in th...

      It might've been the weirdest telephone call ever received.

      It definitely led to the weirdest call ever made.

      Back in the 1990s, when Durham was internationally renowned for its contentious school board meetings -...

      Perhaps it was my 10-year-old brain convincing me that I had a cloak of invisibility, and that if I walked around inside the A&P while eating that honeybun I hadn't paid for, nobody would see me.

      Genius, right?

     Or, possibly, one of my...

      What I did for a pair of basketball sneakers is embarrassing to think about even now, 47 years later.

      For some inexplicable reason, Rockingham's lone sporting goods store - Currie's - ran out of  white canvas hightop Converse when they we...